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In the confusion, Satan escaped; but in revenge for the trick that had been played on him, he put a blight on the vines of the Adda, and from that day to this never a liter of decent wine came out of Sondrio." "I guess if that occurred anywhere in Italy nowadays, they'd lynch the hermit," said a voice in English outside. Helen screamed, and the two Italians were startled.
'How? exclaimed both Philip and Amy. 'I have just heard that there is a fever at Sondrio, and all that neighbourhood, and every one says it would be very foolish to expose ourselves to it. 'What shall we do instead? said Amy. 'I told Arnaud we would let him know in an hour's time; I thought of Venice. 'Venice, oh, yes, delightful. 'What do you say, Philip? said Guy.
A short time brought us to the first village in the Valtelline, where the road bifurcates northward to Bormio and the Stelvio pass, southward to Sondrio and Lombardy.
Now Colico, they say, is a most unhealthy place at this time of year, and Madonna is the very heart of the fever Sondrio not much better. I don't see how it is to be safely done; and though very likely we might not catch the fever, I don't see any use in trying. 'That is making yourself a slave to the fear of infection.
After the attempted outbreak at Milan in 1852, the landed property of well-nigh all the royalist emigrants was swept away by a decree of sequestration. The Milan Gazette published a list of seventy-two political refugees whose property has been laid under sequestration in the provinces of Milan, Como, Mantua, Lodi, Pavia, Brescia, Cremona, Bergamo, and Sondrio.
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